Hurtling around pipes as an electrified Morph Ball doesn’t immediately scream Destiny 2 to me. Even so, I don’t mind the heaping of Metroid that Bungie has stirred into the mix for next month’s The Edge of Fate expansion. It’s weird, sure, but most importantly it feels like something fresh. The Edge of Fate (Image…
The 2025 State of Unreal gave us some long-awaited updates on the tech powering The Witcher 4, and while I was picking my jaw up from the floor, something new found its way onto my screen—a bizarre animated alien rendered from a webcam feed in real time. Epic’s new updates to MetaHuman, its suite of…
Epic Games has been showing off its latest Unreal 5.6 game engine. While it’s full of technical innovations and new graphical and physics features, the main takeaway is that the latest version of arguably the most important video game engine is all about performance. Indeed, Epic’s Senior Director of Framework Engineering Julien Marchand says the…
Umurangi Generation wasn’t just a stylish cyberpunk photography sim. It was a meditation on climate disaster, an indictment of global capitalist hegemony—the kind of game that makes it a little surprising when you hear that developer Origame Digital’s next project is called Penguin Colony, which involves playing as penguins with different abilities. Don’t get me…
A-meow-zing. All eyes are on Mario Kart World this week as Nintendo’s latest flagship entry hits the Nintendo Switch 2 on launch day. That’s not stopping Microids from showcasing its own karting contender, however, with the publisher releasing a teaser trailer for Garfield Kart 2: All You Can Drift. Racing onto the Switch on 10th…
Every time I write about Silksong, I feel as though I’m inching closer to an abyss of madness from which there is no return. Each article starts the same—a rite for the uninitiated, an explanation that yes, this game really was announced in 2019, and yes, it really was stated to be coming out “in…
Team Fortress 2 resides in the long shadows cast by Valve’s pair of popular titans, Dota 2 and Counter-Strike 2. But the class-based FPS has managed to endure despite its little-brother status, perpetuated by a passionate community that includes a competitive scene that’s still producing fireworks. During May’s Physgun Fireside Denver LAN, one fan I…
Well, here’s a good bit of timing. Just a couple of weeks ago, we were telling you about the original Polish The Witcher comics coming out in English (and about Geralt’s fringe looking like a cartoon mustache). Now, they’ve available in a new Humble Bundle—and you can get them for just a dollar. The Witcher…
Minecraft has shared more details on what is coming in its second drop for 2025 in a post on the official blog, including its title—Chase the Skies. But, as excited as I am to take a trip aboard a Happy Ghast and appreciate the beauty of the world thanks to the Vibrant Visuals overhaul, one…
“You’ve just gotta, like, tippy-tap it in”. On a recent trip to Nintendo’s London HQ, our lovely video producer Alex-from-Nintendo-Life Olney was chained up in Nintendo UK’s dungeon seated in a comfortable room and given a few hours to tinker with a Switch 2 and the platform holder’s launch-day offerings, Mario Kart World and Nintendo…